Potage Esau

Potage Esau – soup – Hope you will like this one also, it is one of the best soup. View the video also if available, and feel free to comments, share.

Vegeterian Tips: While everyone else that you are with is chomping down on huge T Bone steaks and French fries, you can turn a side salad and baked potato into your meal, if nothing else is available.

Ingredients (use vegan versions):

  • 8 oz Red Lentils
  • 6 oz Onion ( finely chopped )
  • 3 oz Carrot ( finely chopped )
  • 6 cloves Garlic ( finely chopped )
  • 1 inch Fresh Root ginger ( finely chopped )
  • 8 Chillies, dried or fresh
  • ½ teaspoon Chilli powder
  • 1 teaspoon Powdered Cumin Seed
  • 2 pints water
  • Juice of 1 lemo
  • Tablespoon vegetable oil
  • Black pepper to taste

Directions:

Bring water to the boil in a large saucepan.
Put 4 dried chillies, half of the 1 inch piece Ginger, pepper
and previously washed Lentils into it.
Bring back to the boil and simmer for 1 hour.
In a pan, fry the onion, garlic, carrot, and the remaining ginger
until golden. Add the cumin, chilli powder and remaining dried
chillies and fry for 2 to 3 minutes.
After the Lentils have cooked, add the contents of the frying pan
to the pot and cook for 15 minutes. Add the Lemon Juice.
Serve with croutons or toast and a mixed side salad.

My father who gave me this recipe some years ago claimed that it was
prepared originally by Rebekah, the mother of Esau, who sold his
birthright for a mess of potage. I”m not convinced. I don”t think chillies
reached the Middle East that early. Nice idea though..

Serves: 4.

Preparation time: 90 mins.

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